This is the craziness going on at our house today - B leaves with six friends for an "Amazing Race" event for his 15th birthday, and L returns home with her two neighborhood friends and their adorable cousin. B said he didn't plan this year's race as well as he did last year's scavenger hunt and said he was a bit nervous about it. (His co-planner E wasn't around to help with the logistics.) Regardless, they stayed out and about until we started calling them late this afternoon and told them a thunderstorm was approaching. Fortunately, they all made it back home before it stormed.
We ordered pizza for dinner and they all (minus one who had to leave early) sang "Happy Birthday" to him. Below is the "nice" picture I had them pose for.
This is sensei's latest update on E's trip:
Saturday, June 21
We are almost done with our day. There is still a band concert in the gym so some students are still here.
The school festival was a lot of fun. The entire school was turned into carnival. The school was open to the public, so a lot of people from the community came to visit. Since we were in the newspaper twice this week, some people came to visit our students! We are famous! It reminded all of us that our behavior is very important because people here look at our students and judge America. We need to behave well and represent our school, community and the country well. The students are doing a good job. They all helped out their homeroom class throughout the day. ... There were various kinds of exhibits in the school. The one they had in the library was the exhibit about Ernest Hemingway. They had a whole wall of posters about Hemingway and they had his books on the table. The school librarian made it with volunteer students. When we went inside, she first apologized that the exhibit was small and asked us if it being so `small` was offensive to us. First of all, it wasn`t small. And secondly, we are so grateful that they were thoughtful enough to make that for us. We enjoyed it.
We have no school tomorrow. Students are planning to spend a day with their host family. It is our first day off, so hopefully they will sleep in and get rested too. I am going to Oga to see the beautiful ocean and nature and probably go shopping since my kids are asking if I bought them something yet.. I hope I hear from no one! I am so excited that I don`t have to see the students tommorow for the first time in a week!!!!!!!!!! (is it too many exclamation points?) ... mean ... I will ... miss ... them ... terribly ...? I can`t stop my tears ... o f... joy ... I mean ... tears of ... tears ...?
I am looking forward to hearing what they did on the weekend! I will keep you posted!
She's joked that the Japanese families enjoy our students so much some of the kids might be staying. But, she says, not to worry - she will bring home a new kid for those families.
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